Strata 2013 Exhibitors

0xdataH2O is an extensible statistical and machine learning platform for math on BigData. H2O gives approximate results at each stage of computation for Adhoc analytics and Data Munging at scale via familiar R-like workflows. It is easy to install into the hadoop and R environments & integrates via JSON into business applications. 0xdata makes H2O.

AccentureAccenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with 257,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$27.9 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2012. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

ActianActian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to transact, analyze, and take automated action across their business operations. Actian helps 10,000 customers worldwide take action on their big data with Action Apps, Vectorwise, the analytical database, and Ingres, an independent mission-critical OLTP database. Actian is headquartered in California with offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Melbourne. Stay connected with Actian Corporation on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Actuate - The BIRT CompanyActuate founded and co-leads the Eclipse BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) open source project. BIRT is the premier development environment to present data visualizations in compelling ways via the web on any device. Actuate products add interactivity, dashboards, analytics, and deployment options for web and mobile applications.

AppcaraAppcara has created AppStack, a model-driven platform for accelerating apps into the cloud. We specialize in enabling distributed applications to public and private cloud environments.

AppFirstAppFirst delivers powerful, simple application monitoring providing DevOps professionals and Tech Execs full-stack visibility into systems, applications and business metrics. Its SaaS-based DevOps Dashboard is powered by a flexible big data platform collecting, analyzing and correlating numerous sources of data -- from logs to StatsD to Nagios plug-ins, to millions of low-level process metrics. AppFirst starts monitoring data in minutes, without requiring programming or development. Its configurable dashboards allow users to easily monitor information important to their organization, enabling them to quickly troubleshoot problems and stay on top of what's happening in real time with the systems and the business.

Arista NetworksArista Networks was founded to deliver networking solutions for large data center and HPC environments and delivers a portfolio of Gigabit and 10GBE switches that redefine network architectures, brings extensibility to networking and dramatically changes the price/performance of data center networks. At the core of Arista's platform is the Extensible Operating System (EOS™), a ground-breaking network operating system with single-image consistency across hardware platforms, and modern core architecture enabling in-service upgrades and application extensibility.

Azul SystemsAzul Systems Zing™ is the best JVM for Big Data applications that are critical to business results. Zing is the only JVM that allows very large in-memory datasets while delivering predictable performance, reducing or eliminating the need for extra caching or data grid applications. By allowing 100s of GB of data to be held in the Java heap, reports can be run on more live data with faster results. Zing is the only JVM that provides both very low latency and high sustained throughput for real-time analytics and self-service business intelligence. For more information visit our website www.azulsystems.com/analytics

Basho TechnologiesBasho Technologies is the world's leading distributed systems company. Basho's flagship technology, Riak, is the most powerful open source database you'll ever run in production. Riak is made to scale in a boring, horizontal fashion, and was built with ops professionals in mind. That's why companies like Comcast, Boeing, Yammer, and Voxer trust it with their data.

CDWCDW is a leading provider of technology solutions for businesses of all sizes. CDW features dedicated account managers who help customers choose the right technology products and services to meet their needs. The company's solution architects offer expertise in designing customized solutions, while its advanced technology engineers assist customers with the implementation and long-term management of those solutions. For more information call 800.800.4239 or visit CDW.com

ChartioChartio is building the best interface to data. Simple to set up and easy to use, explore the worlds most popular data sources in real-time by working with your database, not a data warehouse. With Chartio, anyone can build beautiful dashboards and visualizations and share them across the organization. Find out how at Chartio.com

CirroIn the world of distributed data, cloud computing, and Big Data there is a need to access any data, anywhere, at any time with minimal technical support. Cirro is disrupting traditional data analytic approaches by empowering non-technical analysts to perform complex analysis on big data and traditional data sources with the simplicity of Excel or other in-house business intelligence tools without the complexity of dealing with multiple environments and languages. Users are free to 'ask questions about their data' with unparalleled access to any data regardless of the platform or environment for faster, more-informed data exploration and decision-making.

Citus DataAt Citus Data, we are building the next generation scalable analytics database, and making it available to download. Citus DB runs on commodity hardware (or the cloud), has the scalability and fault-tolerance characteristics of Hadoop and runs SQL queries 10x faster than dedicated analytics appliances.

ClouderaCloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services, enables data driven enterprises to easily derive business value from all their data. Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH), available for free at www.cloudera.com/downloads, is the most comprehensive, tested, stable and widely deployed distribution of Hadoop. For the fastest path to reliably using this completely open source technology in production for Big Data analytics and answering previously un-addressable big questions, organizations can subscribe to Cloudera Enterprise, comprised of Cloudera Support and a portfolio of software including Cloudera Management Suite. Cloudera also offers consulting services, training and certification on Apache technologies. www.cloudera.com

Compuware CorporationCompuware APM® is the industry's leading solution for optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience, Compuware APM provides the market's only unified APM coverage across the entire application delivery chain-from the edge of the internet through the cloud to the datacenter. Compuware APM helps customers deliver proactive problem resolution for greater customer satisfaction, accelerate time-to-market for new application functionality and reduce application management costs through smarter analytics and advanced APM automation.

ContinuuityContinuuity delivers the industry's first Big Data application fabric, making it fast and easy for developers to build, deploy, scale and manage Big Data apps. Continuuity offers a unified experience across the application lifecycle from development to DevOps. By providing pre-packaged building blocks with higher level APIs, tooling and documentation, Continuuity makes creating Big Data applications blazing fast. The cloud-based Continuuity AppFabric is built on top of Hadoop open source components and shields developers from complex infrastructure. With visually rich UIs, elastic scalability at the touch of a button and push-button app deployment from the developer's local machine to the cloud, Continuuity shifts focus from infrastructure to business value creation.

Continuum Analytics Inc.Continuum Analytics was founded by the creator of NumPy and SciPy to provide Python-based products, training, and services for big data analytics, scalable distributed computation, and data management. We work with scientists, analysts, and domain experts across many industries to surface business insights from their data.

CouchbaseCouchbase is a leading provider of NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project. Couchbase Server, the company's flagship product, is a NoSQL document-oriented database with production deployments at AOL, Cisco, Concur, LinkedIn, Orbitz, Salesforce.com, Shuffle Master, Zynga and hundreds of other household names worldwide. It is particularly well suited for interactive applications, providing easy scalability, consistent high performance, 24x365 availability, and a flexible data model for ease of development.

Data Direct NetworksDDN is the world's largest, privately-held, data storage infrastructure provider. With a unique and exacting focus on the requirements of today's massive unstructured data generators, DDN has innovated a comprehensive product portfolio for Big Data applications which are optimized for the world's most data-intensive environments. At Strata DDN will be featuring hScaler, the world's first truly unified analytics appliance factory configured and solutions ready, with the ability to be deployed in hours and answer queries in seconds. Only hScaler can put you in charge of your big data while truly lowering your TCO. Visit DDN at booth #217.

DatameerDatameer's end-to-end Big Data Discovery solution enables business users to discover insights in any data via wizard-based data integration, iterative point-and-click analytics, and drag-and-drop visualizations, regardless of the data type, size, or source. Optimized for big data analytical workloads characterized by multiple data sources of varying types, Datameer uses Hadoop for both storage and compute, and is a fully extensible solution that can integrate with existing DW or BI solutions. Datameer users can also gain instant insights via the Datameer App Market, which offers dozens of pre-built analytic applications across a variety of use cases and data types.

DataStaxDataStax offers products and services based on the popular open-source database, Apache Cassandra™ that solve today's most challenging big data problems. DataStax Enterprise (DSE) combines the performance of Cassandra with analytics powered by Apache Hadoop™, creating a smartly integrated, data-centric platform. With DSE, real-time and analytic workloads never conflict, giving you maximum performance with the added benefit of only managing a single database. The company has well over 100 customers, including leaders such as Netflix, Cisco, Rackspace and Constant Contact, and spanning verticals including web, financial services, telecommunications, logistics and government. DataStax is backed by industry leading investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Crosslink Capital and is based in San Mateo, CA.

DellDell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers worldwide innovative technology, business solutions and services they trust and value. For more information, visit www.dell.com.

Digital ReasoningDigital Reasoning has developed Synthesys, a platform for making sense of unstructured data. Modeled after the human understanding process, Synthesys reads, resolves and reasons across hundreds of millions of documents to automatically understand and isolate critical information such as risks, opportunities and anomalies. Having solved problems for US intelligence agencies for the past decade, Synthesys is now delivering Automated Understanding for big data challenges in finance, health care and legal markets. Digital Reasoning is based outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with offices in Washington, D.C., and New York.

DiscoverTextDiscoverText is a cloud-based text analytics solution that provides valuable insights about employees, customers, products, news, and citizens. With dozens of powerful features, including an ActiveLearning machine classification engine, DiscoverText provides the tools to make better decisions quickly and accurately when handling social media, open-ended surveys, e-mail, and much more.

ESRIFor over 40 years Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The Esri ArcGIS platform is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications and geographic data, running on desktops, web and enterprise servers, and mobile devices, are the foundation for the world's mapping and location analysis. Visit us at esri.com/news.

Fuzzy LogixFUZZY LOGIX - THE GLOBAL LEADER OF IN-DATABASE AND GPU-BASED ANALYTICS Fuzzy Logix is a software and professional services company. We provide a new generation of in-database and GPU-based analytic solutions which help companies make smarter decisions and improve effectiveness and performance. Our solutions are easy to use and deploy, highly scalable and run 10X to 1000X faster than other products. Fuzzy Logix has developed over 800 different types of algorithms that are used by healthcare, retail, marketing and digital media companies, and this library continues to grow rapidly. In addition to general models, Fuzzy Logix has also developed a comprehensive financial library that includes equity, fixed income, risk and time-series models used by the financial services industry. We make analytics easy, pervasive and available real-time.

HadaptHadapt has developed the industry's only Big Data analytic platform natively integrating SQL with Apache Hadoop. The unification of these traditionally segregated platforms enables customers to analyze all of their data (structured, semi-structured and unstructured) in a single platform-no connectors, complexities or rigid structure. The company's core technology began as research in the Yale Computer Science department under co-founders Dr. Daniel Abadi and Ph.D student Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski. In 2011, led by co-founder and CEO Justin Borgman, Hadapt raised $9.5MM Series A round of funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

HortonworksHortonworks is a leading commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the preeminent open source platform for storing, managing and analyzing big data. Our distribution, Hortonworks Data Platform powered by Apache Hadoop, provides an open and stable foundation for enterprises and a growing ecosystem to build and deploy big data solutions. Hortonworks is the trusted source for information on Hadoop, and together with the Apache community, Hortonworks is making Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage and use. Hortonworks provides unmatched technical support, training and certification programs for enterprises, systems integrators, and technology vendors. For more information, visit www.hortonworks.com.

HPHP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. HP is a global leader in providing Information Optimization solutions that help enterprises manage, understand, and act upon the variety, velocity and volume of organizational data, whether structured or unstructured. This enables enterprises to gain valuable insights and make better quicker decisions to drive maximum "Return on Information."

IBMBig data is more than a matter of size; it is an opportunity to uncover insights in new and emerging types of data and enterprise content to shape business strategy. IBM's comprehensive big data platform uses sophisticated technologies, including patented advanced analytics, to solve 'big data' problems and equip your organization with a competitive edge. Designed to complement your existing information infrastructure, IBM's enterprise-class big data platform lets you get started quickly today and easily expand to address more complex problems tomorrow.

Import•ioImport•io addresses the elephant in the technology industry's room - everyone scrapes online data. Using powerful point and click data extraction tooling, a task which took days coding brittle scrapers is now reduced to a few minutes. Automatic normalisation allows users to mix hundreds of data sources, making data instantly comparable and accessed through a single API call, or pulled into a spreadsheet. Businesses are using import•io to extract online data for everything from data journalism, retail trend analysis, through commercial intelligence for due diligence, to personalized events listing services.

inBloom, IncinBloom, Inc. is a nonprofit organization working to make personalized learning a reality for every U.S. student. inBloom provides technology services that allow states and public school districts to better integrate student data and learning applications to support sustainable, cost-effective personalized learning. inBloom is funded with initial philanthropic support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

InfochimpsInfochimps helps businesses make sense of their big data with unprecedented speed, scale and flexibility. The Infochimps Platform is an innovative solution that streamlines building and managing complex Big Data environments, and distills analytics to deliver actionable intelligence faster. With Infochimps, companies can have confidence that they have the fastest way to deploy big data environments in the cloud. Infochimps is a privately held, venture-backed company with offices in Austin, TX and the Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.infochimps.com and follow @infochimps on Twitter.

IntelIntel, the world leader in silicon innovation, delivers hardware and software technologies to continually advance how people work and live. For over two decades, Intel's contributions to open-source projects-from one end of the solution stack to the other-have helped ensure that a breadth of solutions run exceptionally well on Intel® architecture. As a result, open-source-based solutions, running on Intel® architecture, help unlock business opportunities, power businesses, connect people, and enhance lives. Open source is bringing amazing experiences to life-and Intel is helping power these experiences as a Sponsor of Tomorrow.

IntrideaRecently ranked as the 33rd fastest growing software company in the U.S. on the Inc. 500 list, Intridea creates highly usable web and mobile applications for the enterprise, with clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500s. Our services include Ruby on Rails Web Development, UX and Interface Design, and Mobile Application Development.

JasperSoftJaspersoft empowers millions of people every day to make faster decisions by bringing them timely, actionable data inside their apps and business processes. Its embeddable, cost-effective reporting and analytics platform allows anyone to quickly self-serve and get the answers they need and scales architecturally and economically to reach everyone. www.jaspersoft.com

KarmasphereKarmasphere, the leader in Big Data Intelligence, equips companies to unlock the power of Big Data in Hadoop, opening up a whole new world of possibilities to add value to their businesses. Karmasphere makes unparalleled collaboration possible for Big Data Analytics teams so they can discover and share new patterns, relationships, drivers and insights for any multi-structured data in a variety of Hadoop distributions including: Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, Cloudera, HortonWorks, IBM, and MapR Technologies.

LexisNexisHPCC Systems® from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions offers a proven, data-intensive supercomputing platform designed for the enterprise to process and solve Big Data analytical problems. As a superior alternative to Hadoop and legacy technology, HPCC Systems offers a consistent data-centric programming language, two processing platforms and a single, complete end-to-end architecture for efficient processing. For more information, visit HPCC Systems at hpccsystems.com. Connect with us on Twitter (@hpccsystems), Facebook (www.facebook.com/hpccsystems) and LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/company/hpcc-systems)

LucidWorksLucidWorks is the trusted name in Search, Discovery and Analytics, delivering the only enterprise-grade embedded search solutions built on Apache Lucene/Solr open source search. The LucidWorks Product Suite consists of two development platforms - LucidWorks Search and LucidWorks Big Data. LucidWorks Search delivers unmatched scalability to billions of documents, with sub-second query and faceting response time. LucidWorks Big Data tightly integrates key Apache projects needed to build and deploy applications needing access to multi-structured data. Leveraging the scalable power of Apache projects such as Lucene/Solr, Hadoop, Mahout and Zookeeper enables organizations to meet Big Data requirements: Volume, Variety and Velocity.

MapR TechnologiesMapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop, making managing and analyzing Big Data a reality for more business users. The award-winning MapR Distribution brings unprecedented dependability, speed and ease-of-use to Hadoop. Combined with data protection and business continuity, MapR enables customers to harness the power of Big Data analytics. Leading companies including Amazon, Cisco, EMC and Google partner with MapR to deliver an enterprise-grade Hadoop solution.

Mark LogicFor more than a decade, MarkLogic has delivered a powerful and trusted next-generation Enterprise NoSQL database that enables organizations to turn all data into valuable and actionable information. Organizations around the world rely on MarkLogic's enterprise-grade technology to make better decisions faster. MarkLogic is headquartered in Silicon Valley with field offices in Washington D.C., New York, London, Tokyo, and Austin, TX. For more information, please visit www.marklogic.com.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., PublishersBig Data is the first and only peer-reviewed journal to connect industry, academia, and government, to serve a world where the pace from research to implementation is ever accelerating. Spearheaded by Editor-in-Chief, Edd Dumbill, Principal Analyst & Program Chair at O'Reilly Media, and a respected team of data experts, Big Data will be the go-to platform for advances in big data technologies, discussions of unique and innovative big data problems and ideas, as well as the sharing and dissemination of world-class knowledge. Big Data will publish as open access to ensure content is made widely available to a global audience. www.liebertpub.com/big

MemSQLMemSQL is a distributed database for real-time analytics. Data scientists, analysts, and developers can query high velocity workloads and historical data simultaneously, all through a convenient SQL interface. By combining significant speed and throughput advantages with complex analytics, an enterprise can gain instant insight to their business and stay competitive in a fast-moving environment.

MetamarketsMetamarkets provides solutions for real-time advertising analytics that give global businesses critical insights for growing revenue. The company's interactive dashboard gives customers like OpenX, MoPub, and the Financial Times, the ability to get instant insight on the fast changing dynamics of mobile, video and display marketplaces in a matter of seconds. Metamarkets is headquartered in San Francisco, and backed by Khosla Ventures, AOL Ventures, True Ventures, IA Ventures and Data Collective. For more information, visit www.metamarkets.com.

MicrosoftMicrosoft's Big Data Solution enables organizations to unlock actionable insights from structured, unstructured and streaming data. You can now deploy Hadoop with HDInsight Service in the cloud with the simplicity and manageability of Windows Azure. Easily combine your structured and unstructured with PolyBase for SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse. Glean new insights from all your data with familiar tools such as Excel and SharePoint using our Hive ODBC drivers and add-ins. Enrich your data by combining with the world's data through Windows Azure Marketplace. Learn more at www.microsoft.com/bigdata

Mu SigmaMu Sigma, one of the world's largest decision sciences and analytics firms, helps companies institutionalize data-driven decision making and harness Big Data. We solve high-impact business problems in the areas of Marketing, Risk and Supply Chain across 10 industry verticals. With over 2000 decision science professionals and more than 75 Fortune 500 clients, Mu Sigma has driven disruptive innovation in the analytics industry with its interdisciplinary approach combining business, math and technology, and its integrated decision support ecosystem comprised of technology platforms, processes, methodologies and people.

NetAppNetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Customers choose our solutions in Big Data Cloud, virtualization, business applications, and data protection. NetApp with its best-of-breed partnerships delivers analytical solutions, including Hadoop, that provide highly reliable, ready to deploy solutions allowing companies to gain insights from their data and get to revenue faster. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

Nippon Software Knowledge CorpNippon Software Knowledge Corp. (NSK) is Japan's market leader in providing BIG DATA solutions in the financial, electronics, IT, manufacturing and government sectors. As early as 2007, NSK anticipated the need to meet the challenges of massive growth in BIG DATA and to provide effective market solutions, not only in Japan, but in the global market as well. In response to this, NSK has developed the highest-speed data processing & analytics tool--in memory -- SOFIT Super REALISM. The English version has just been released and is available for demonstration. NSK is currently seeking business partners in the U.S.

OrangeFSAs an advocate for open source development, we are providing development and marketing resources toward OrangeFS, the next generation of PVFS for high performance cluster computing and big data. This commitment includes commercial-grade product services for present and future customers who are leveraging OrangeFS in applications for high-performance and enterprise computing.

ParAccelTo gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world companies need immediate answers to any business question they ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel accelerates analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate, and compete. The ParAccel Analytic Platform combines an analytic database with advanced extensibility and integration technology to provide an unequalled foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel's Fortune 1000 customers, in Digital Media, Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform in the world.

PentahoPentaho is building the future of business analytics. Pentaho's open source heritage drives our continued innovation in a modern, integrated, embeddable platform built for accessing all data sources. With support for all of the leading Hadoop distributions, NoSQL databases and high performance analytic databases, Pentaho provides the broadest support for big data analytics, as well as integration and orchestration of big data and traditional sources. For more information visit pentahobigdata.com or call +1 866-660-7555.

PlatforaPlatfora software instantly transforms raw data in Hadoop into interactive, in-memory business intelligence. No ETL or data warehouse is required. For more details, visit www.platfora.com and follow us @platfora.

PrecogPrecog is a data science platform designed for developers and data scientists to leverage their data assets to build new data products and add data-driven features to existing products. Our platform allows companies to capture and store data in any form (structured, unstructured), perform advanced analytics and statistics with Quirrel, the "R for big data" language, and using Labcoat, Precog's interactive data analysis tool. The Precog data science platform offers an end-to-end solution for programmatic big data analysis: from capture and storage, to cleaning and enrichment, to deep analysis designed to power intelligent, insightful features inside applications. Precog is ideal for heterogeneous data, normalized and denormalized data, whole data analysis, complicated analysis and data integration. Sign up for a free account at www.precog.com and follow us on Twitter at @precogio.

QuboleQubole delivers the next-generation big data platform for analyzing and processing data sets via the cloud. Having conceived and built the petabyte scale "big data" platform at Facebook, Qubole co-founders are bringing their learning from that experience to provide similar infrastructure and tools on the cloud. Qubole big data platform-as-a-service is targeted towards data analysts, data scientists and ETL engineers. With Qubole, users can quickly inspect their data, author and execute queries and convert queries into scheduled jobs. The current Qubole platform is built on an optimized version of Apache Hadoop and Hive, which allows users to work with massive sets of structured and unstructured (big) data in the cloud.

Rackspace HostingRackspace Hosting is the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. In 2010, Rackspace was recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and listed on the InformationWeek 500 as one of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. The company was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the '2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting.' For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.

RainstorRainStor's database enables the world's largest companies to keep and access limitless amounts of data for as long as they want at the lowest cost. It features the highest level of compression on the market, together with high performance on-demand query and simplified management. RainStor runs natively on a variety of architectures and infrastructure including Hadoop and the Cloud. With over 100 blue chip customers, RainStor goes to market directly and through strategic partners including AdaptiveMobile, Anritsu, Dell, HP, Teradata among others. For more info, www.rainstor.com or @rainstor

RevelytixRevelytix produces enterprise software empowering data scientists and business analysts working with Hadoop-based datasets. The Loom Registry brings order to the chaos of Hadoop clusters by managing datasets, recording workflows, and capturing complete data lineage and provenance information. The Loom Server simplifies MapReduce using an extensible workflow paradigm, automatically updating the Loom Registry with workflow results. Revelytix unlocks the full potential of Hadoop -- with Loom.

Revolution AnalyticsRevolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services based on the open source R project for statistical computing. The company brings high performance, productivity and enterprise readiness to R, the most powerful statistics language in the world. The company's flagship Revolution R Enterprise product is designed to meet the production needs of large organizations in industries such as finance, life sciences, retail, manufacturing and media. Used by over two million analysts in academia and at cutting-edge companies such as Google, Bank of America and Acxiom, R has emerged as the standard of innovation in statistical analysis. Revolution Analytics is committed to fostering the continued growth of the R community through sponsorship of the Inside-R.org community site, funding worldwide R user groups and offering free licenses of Revolution R Enterprise to everyone in academia.

RightScaleRightScale cloud management enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business-critical applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds. RightScale provides efficient configuration, monitoring, automation, and governance of cloud computing infrastructure and applications. Since 2006, millions of servers have been launched with the RightScale solution by leading enterprises including the Associated Press, CBS Interactive, Intercontinental Hotels Group, PBS, and Zynga.

SAPSAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device, SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. We do this by extending the availability of software across on-premise installations, on-demand deployments, and mobile devices. We believe that the power of our people, products, and partners unleashes growth and creates significant new value for our customers, SAP, and, ultimately, entire industries and the economy at large. Our mission is to help companies of all sizes and industries to run better. Our vision is to help the world run better. www.sap.com

ScaleMPThe innovative Versatile SMP™ (vSMP) architecture aggregates multiple x86 systems into a single virtual x86 system, delivering an industry-standard, high-end symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) computer. Using software to replace expensive custom hardware and components, ScaleMP offers a new, revolutionary computing paradigm. A system created with vSMP Foundation allows for the storage of massive amounts of data in high speed memory, which is then easily accessible from any process running on the system. By keeping more of the important data in memory, faster decisions can be made and more data can be analyzed.

ScaleOut SoftwareScaleOut Software offers in-memory data grid (IMDG) middleware for scaling application performance and accelerating map/reduce analytics. ScaleOut StateServer® removes performance bottlenecks and gives applications scalable access to data in cloud and on-premise environments. Global data integration enables data synchronization across multiple remote data grids so they can be viewed as a single virtual IMDG. A built-in map/reduce engine drives real-time map/reduce on fast-changing data for rapid decision making. Ease of use is a hallmark characteristic of all ScaleOut products, resulting in minimum development time and maximum productivity.

Simba Technologies Inc.Simba is the world expert in data access and analytics. Simba's products power business intelligence-connecting front-end applications with back-end data sources. Microsoft and Simba developed ODBC in 1992. SimbaEngine SDK is the foundation for developing ODBC 3.52 and JDBC 4.0 drivers for any data source. Simba ODBC 3.52 Drivers for Hadoop/Hive, Cassandra, MongoDB and SalesForce connect products like Excel, MicroStrategy and Tableau to cloud and Big Data sources. No other Big Data ODBC drivers are as advanced or BI ready. Simba's data access and analytics solutions are chosen by ISVs such as MapR, Microsoft, SAP and Teradata. | www.simba.com

SiSenseSiSense Prism is a Big Data Analytics Solution that provides the benefits of In-Memory without its disadvantages. SiSense In-Memory Columnar Datastore analyzes 100 times more data at 10 times the speed of comparable solutions. No need to set up complex data warehouse systems or OLAP cubes. No need for programming either, regardless where data comes from or how big it is. Download a free trial version of the software at http://www.sisense.com/prism-free-trial

Skytree Inc.Skytree's Machine Learning platform gives organizations the power to discover deep analytic insights, predict future trends, make recommendations and reveal untapped markets and customers. Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning are quickly becoming must-have technologies in the age of Big Data, and Skytree provides the Enterprise-grade foundation. Skytree's flagship product - Skytree Server - is the only general purpose scalable Machine Learning system on the market, built for the highest accuracy at unprecedented speed and scale.

SoftLayerHeadquartered in Dallas, SoftLayer is the innovation leader in on-demand web hosting and data center services. As the largest hosting company in the world, SoftLayer lets customers create Cloud, Dedicated, or seamlessly integrated computing environments, leveraging the company's world-class data center facilities in Dallas, Houston, Seattle, and Washington D.C., and network Points of Presence nationwide. SoftLayer integrates and automates all elements of its platform, empowering enterprises of any size with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management via a leading Customer Portal and Open API. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com or call 866.398.7638.

Splice MachineSplice Machine provides the first SQL-compliant database designed for Big Data applications. The Splice SQL Engine™ provides all the benefits of NoSQL databases, such as auto-sharding, scalability, fault tolerance and high availability, while retaining the strengths of the industry standard - SQL - to optimize complex queries and enable interactive analytics.

SplunkSplunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) provides the engine for machine data. Splunk software collects, indexes and harnesses the machine-generated big data coming from the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business. Splunk software enables organizations to monitor, search, analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data. More than 4,800 enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers in over 80 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain Operational Intelligence that deepens business and customer understanding, improves service and uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cyber-security risk. Splunk Storm, a cloud-based subscription service, is used by organizations developing applications in the cloud.

Sumo LogicSumo Logic is the next generation log management and analytics company that leverages Big Data for real-time IT insights. The company's cloud-based service provides customers with real-time interactive analytics at unprecedented petabyte scale. The Sumo Logic service is powered by patent-pending Elastic Log Processing™ and LogReduce™ technologies, and transforms log data into actionable insights for IT operations, application management, and security and compliance teams. Unlike expensive and complex premise-based solutions, the Sumo Logic service has a low TCO, can be deployed instantly, scales elastically and requires zero maintenance. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.

SyncsortSyncsort is a leading provider of high0performance data integration and sort solutions ideally suited for today's complex big data environments. For more than a decade, Syncsort DMExpress® software has delivered fast, efficient, simple and cost-effective solutions for integrating, optimizing and migrating data in thousands of applications around the world. www.syncsort.com/dmexpress

Syracuse University iSchoolThe School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University offers the first NYS-approved Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science. The 15-credit program is flexible in its offerings, including part-time and online study. While technical skills are an important component of the curriculum, graduates are also equipped with highly marketable, theoretical knowledge that carries them beyond the rise and fall of any one technology. Its expertise covers both structured and unstructured data and spans the full data lifecycle from collection to curation.

Tableau SoftwareTableau Software helps people see and understand data. Tableau's award-winning software delivers fast analytics, visualization and rapid-fire business intelligence on data of any size, format, or subject. The result? Anyone can get answers from data quickly, with no programming required. From executive dashboards to ad-hoc reports, Tableau lets you share mobile and browser-based, interactive analytics in a few clicks. More than 9,000 organizations, including some of the world's largest enterprises, rely on Tableau Software. Learn more at: www.tableausoftware.com.

TerracottaTerracotta, Inc. is a leading provider of game changing Big Data management solutions for the enterprise. Its flagship product, BigMemory, is a Big Data in-memory solution that delivers performance at any scale. Terracotta's other award-winning data management solutions include Ehcache-the defacto caching standard for enterprise Java-and Quartz, a leading job scheduler. Terracotta supports the data management needs of a majority of the Global 2000 with over 2.5 million deployments of its products in 190 countries. Terracotta is a wholly owned subsidiary of Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW. For more information, please visit www.terracotta.org.

Treasure DataTreasure Data's Hadoop-based cloud big data service enables data-driven businesses to focus their precious development resources on their core applications not on mundane but time-consuming integration and operational tasks. We provide a pre-built, managed platform that handles data collection, storage and processing and is already in use by over 50 customers worldwide. Our customers range from Fortune 1000 companies through leaders in the social gaming industry to innovative data-driven start-ups and our multi-tenancy architecture is already storing over two hundred billion rows of data for these customers. Visit us at #908, meet our founding team and learn how we can help power your business.

UnravelUnravel is the first comprehensive application optimizer for Hadoop. Use Unravel's Visualize, Optimize, and Strategize features to maximize ROI from big data applications and infrastructure. Diagnose poor performance with ease, perform one-click tuning of MapReduce, Hive/SQL queries, and NoSQL stores, and provision resources intelligently on premise or on the cloud.

Verizon Communications Inc.Verizon Communications Inc. is a global leader in delivering next generation technology solutions to consumer, business, government, and wholesale customers. Our integrated business solutions empower customers in more than 150 countries, including the Fortune 500. Here, we're building one of the world's largest Big Data platforms that will be consumed for Business Analytics, Operational Analytics, Text Analytics, Data Services and generate Big Data Solutions across business units. As a Big Data expert, join a team that's at the forefront of technology. You'll be challenged and rewarded as you create a state-of-the-art analytics platform that will drive our future.

VMwareVMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, VMware has more than 300,000 customers and 25,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

ZoomdataDesigned to support Big Data, Zoomdata's Stream Processing technology delivers real time data feeds to tablet and browser based devices. Through the use of touch screen devices, users are able to interact with data in real time, rewind the data, compare the data and share views with their colleagues.